Thread regarding Cigna layoffs

The race to offshore America!

Job offshoring in the country is gaining momentum at an unprecedented pace. Major companies are making headlines that show it’s no longer confined to lower-level positions — middle and upper management roles are now being transferred to India as well. A striking irony: those who once designed and championed the offshoring strategy may soon find themselves among its casualties. (Some may feel gleeful at that thought.)

How do you stop it? A lot would need to change, but one thing is certain, the leadership that implements this will go down in history as saving society.


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@122 And that is why your jobs are going to India. Don't trust them.

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Post ID: @1kc+1k9ax3dhz

It’s insane everyone in medical benefits and pharmacy benefits at Cigna is offshore now. The only way it will change is Gov policy taxing so much for offshore it makes more sense to hire in USA. The quality is poor but Cigna saves money so they don’t care.

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Post ID: @19b+1k9ax3dhz

I was in the town hall the other day. Every leader was Indian and almost the entire audience in CT Like just move the company to India

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Post ID: @122+1k9ax3dhz

does the HIRE act includes the
no tax breaks for outsourcing act? or are they 2 different bills

here’s what it is: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/995

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Post ID: @xc+1k9ax3dhz

@cr this strategy continues to fail and yes, they keep going back to it. It’s a short term win for a bunch of inept leaders that keep making bad decisions and covering the loses with our jobs. They can prop up the stock and make the shareholder s happy. It’s the oldest play in the leader playbook. Have you ever noticed, very few at the top pay the price for their bad decisions?

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Post ID: @d4+1k9ax3dhz

This strategy has been tried before and failed because Indians, Filipinos, etc didn’t understand enough, had cultural differences that reduced quality of work or they couldn’t communicate well enough and eventually it led to issues big enough to cause losses. Now the assumption is AI can close the knowledge gap and can be used to make accents sound American. But you get what you pay for. IT is already seeing all sorts of problems due to HIH not knowing what they are doing and working off of SOPs and trusting everything AI tells them or inserting inefficient or wrong AI code into code bases. Help Desk sounds better thanks to AI but they take longer to fix problems.

Eventually companies will realize that unlike manufacturing, AI can’t do these jobs entirely and Indians are good at jobs for India but not for America. Until then call your elected representatives about HIRE act, encourage Trump to levy more tariffs against India and antagonize Modi into escalating, and encourage Pakistan to go back to bo----g Kashmir.

CIGNA = Creating Indian Growth, Not American.

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Post ID: @cr+1k9ax3dhz

@ab the HIRE act sounds good, but not sure it will be enough. It will still be cheaper in general to stay offshore and pay the fee/tax. I would worry about the safety of US jobs at that point. Would they cut back on the American workforce to put more $ towards the tax and spend on more offshore workers under the guise of 'restructuring'? Quite possibly. They already cut back on workers now to put towards AI.

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Post ID: @aj+1k9ax3dhz

@OP ask your state reps and senators to support the HIRE Act. AI is the excuse they are using to lay us off and send jobs to India. Companies are investing over there. I hear all the time, we can’t find young kids with Tech degrees. All lies. Don’t believe the BS. And avoid supporting companies that are flushing our jobs down the drain.

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Post ID: @ab+1k9ax3dhz

May feel? I for one would feel fantastic! Karma!

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